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' 2 Sh 1. A. eets Sheet Car Seat and Couch.

No; 12,644. Patented Apr. 3, 1855.

AM. PHOTO-LITHQCQNX. (OSBORNES PROCESS.)

2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

A. D. SMITH.

. Car Seat and Couch.

Patented Apr. 3, 1855.

improvedcar-seat;

.1, I UNITED STATES PATET A f PHEUs D. SMITH,-OF MEREDITH, NEW YORK.

RAILROAD-GAR SEAT.

Specification of Letters Patent No.. 12,644, dated April 3, 1855.

3 vertical transverse section, of my improvedcar-seatwhenit 1s arranged for ordi- I nary day-riding. Fig.4 is a Vertical transverse section of my improved car-seat when i itzis arranged for night-riding, and Figs.

5, 6, and 7 are viewsofjdetached portions of The nature of my nvention consists in 3 making such addit-ionstc the ordinary form of car seat, that its back may be easily elevated and retainedin ltheproper position for supporting the shoulders and head for night a riding, or. whenever it may bedesired by the occupants.

The seat A, and the back. B, of my improved car seat, are of the usual form. The

i i g arms 0,0, which are secured to the ends of the back B, and which, in. the ordinary day shown in the car seat, are pivotedto the arms 70,70, in my improved car seat arejo-inted to the movable flat bars d, d, which pass throughthe inclos ing guards Z, "Z, on the facing plates h, h that are secured tothe inner sides of the seat arms is, Zc-and thence downithrough open ings in the block 6,6, which rest upon and are secured to the ends of the car seats, as drawings. When used as a day seat, theend bars cl, (5, areallowed to descend to thepo-sitionshown in Figs. 2 and 3,

which causes the armsc, 0, of the back of theseat, to rest upon the. inwardly projecting shoulders g, g, of the plates f, f,-that are secured. to the supporters p, p, of the seat arms is, k,-and thereby the said back B, is

securely held inits proper position for day l i j riding. j

When it :is desired to put the backof the seat into the proper position for supporting the heads ofthe occupants of theseat, it is merely necessary toelevate the seat and the flat bars d, d, to such a helght as to brmg the pins y, j, which project outward from the m, m, in theface plates f, f, on the seat arms k, is, when the requisite inclination can be given to the said bars (2, d, to enable the lower corners of the back B, to rest upon the aforesaid shoulders g, g, as shownin Fig. 4; in which position the said back will be securely held by its arms 0, c, and the flat bars d, d. As soon as the pins 7', j, on the bars 0?, cl, are brought in contact with the upper extremities of the notches m, m, in the plates h, h, the lower extremities of said bars can be moved forward or backward in the grooves i, i, in the blocks 6, 6, (shown in Fig. 7,) a and thereby the requisite positionbe given to the said bars to sustain the back B, in its elevated position. The said bars d, (Z, are firmly held in their elevated positions by meansof their lower extremities fitting into the ends of'the grooves i, 2', in the blocks 6, e, in conjunction with their embracingguards .Z, Z, and their pins j, j, fitting into the angles shown in Fig. 2. j Having thus fully described my improve- ,ment'ln car seats, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is The combination of the arms 0, 0, which project from the back of a car seat, with'the movable bars (Z, d, which are combined with the car seat and its arms 1c, 70, (or their equivalents) in such a manner that, by the ald of theshoulders g, g, on the standards 3 9, p, the back of the seat may be supported in the proper position for day riding, or be elevated: into the proper position for night riding, and supported in that position, substantially as herein set forth.

The above specification of my improved car seat, signed and-witnessed this 15th day of November, 1854. j

i A. D. SMITH.

Witnessesz JOHN McCLIN'noK,

. LUGINDA L. MOGLINTIOK. 

